When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
His recent books include The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series. "Grisham excels!" - Dallas Times Herald.Ībout the Author John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. "Grisham's pleasure in relating the Byzantine complexities of Clanton (Mississippi) politics is contagious and he tells a good story.An enjoyable book." - Library Journal. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life-and then his own.ĭon't miss John Grisham's new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon! The mostly white town of Clanton in Ford County, Mississippi, reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime-until the girl's father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own hands. The life of a ten-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless white men. "John Grisham may well be the best American storyteller writing today."- The Philadelphia Inquirer
The debut went on to be adapted for film, starring Matthew McConaughey as Brigance.About the Book A Southern town is shocked when a 10-year-old black girl is raped by two white men-until the girl's father takes the law into his own hands.īook Synopsis #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The master of the legal thriller probes the savage depths of racial violence in this searing courtroom drama featuring the beloved Jake Brigance. It was Grisham's second novel, The Firm, that made his name and allowed him to turn his hobby into a career: it became the bestselling novel of 1991, with the author's continuing success eventually prompting the reissue of A Time to Kill, which quickly became a hit. He received a host of rejections from publishers, but the novel was eventually acquired by Wynwood Press, with 5,000 copies printed in 1988. Grisham wrote the book in three years, getting up at 5am to work on it before he started his day job. The novel was written after Grisham – then a lawyer who had been elected to the state House of Representatives – overheard the testimony of a 12-year-old rape victim he was inspired to explore what would have happened if her father had murdered her attackers. Clanton was also the setting for A Time to Kill, in which Brigance defended Carl Lee Hailey, on trial for murder after gunning down his daughter's white rapists.
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